While three fired Connecticut Humane Society workers were in the public spotlight last week describing poor working conditions and raising questions about whether animals there were being unnecessarily euthanized, the person most responsible for this…
Attorney General Richard Blumenthal announced that consumers who have unresolved complaints against Vonage — an Internet-based phone service — may be entitled to restitution under a $3 million settlement reached with his office and other attorneys general.
Today we are publishing Kevin Szymanski’s fifth personal training video, this time focusing on how to use a treadmill properly. Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been working out…
Today we published Kevin Szymanski’s fourth core strengthening video, this time with me performing the exercise and Kevin giving pointers. Again, it’s important to check with your doctor if you have not been working out…
So much journalism has become he said/she said, with no one bothering to check the facts, or even what he or she said before this. Thanks to digital records, shows such as Rachel Maddow’s are…
Our West Coast Music/Radio/Entertainment/Media blogger Brad Kava brings us this video of the new band Furthur – made up of Grateful Dead members – playing in the Bay area.
I’m not much of a cartoon watcher..but this is simply a perfect sendup of Glenn Beck and his manipulating ilk. Watch it and laugh. Or cry.
Radio is finally joining television and the Internet in an accurate ratings system, and programmers are responding. For years, radio was rated by people who kept diaries of what they listened to, an often subjective…
For those who say I only write about conservatives doing dumb things, here is a video of a story that Fox News broke and I agree with. President Obama is wasting taxpayer money and trying…
For the tens of millions of Americans who have herpes – a disease that does not go away – there is now a much cheaper alternative to the only effective medicine – Valtrex – Â that…
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said today that a plastic surgeon whose surgical facility was urgently suspended from practice last week after inspectors discovered severe violations has voluntarily surrendered both her individual physician’s license and her…
Only recently have I realized that I watch more TV shows on my computer than on my television set. There are enough free sites out there that bring my favorite shows to my house whenever I…
In the truth in media department here at the CtWatchdog, here’s another shocking video. Remember when Dan Rather used a trumped-up report about George Bush and was lambasted all over for it? Well, it’s sad…
Bob Brinker, host of the nationally syndicated radio show “Moneytalk,” shocked me Sunday when he said that the evidence shows that trickle-down economics doesn’t work. Trickle down, or supply side, economics was big under Ronald…
Conn Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and state health officials suspended the licenses of Dr. Teresita Mascardo, d/b/a Connecticut Plastic Surgery Center, LLC of Ridgefield in an emergency action after discovering horrific office conditions.
I’m in shock over this one, almost as much shock as Mrs. Woods must have felt looking at Tiger’s (Cheetah’s) phone records. For years I heard Lou Dobbs on radio and TV campaign against giving…
Nothing makes me more skeptical than these supposed radio money gurus. First, if they were so good at what they are doing, why would they be doing it on the radio? Second, I didn’t hear one of them, not one, predict the current recession, nor the steady rise in stocks recently.
I try to be an impartial observer of the media, especially now when so much of it has become juvenile name-calling with few truths behind it. Media Matters is usually on point, despite what its…
The Journal Inquirer is suing The Courant for plagiarism and is asking for financial damages. West Hartford attorney Richard P. Weinstein filed the suit in Hartford Superior Court – according to a report in the…
Defendants’ Motion to Strike the Amended Complaint, Nov. 18, 2009 (PDF) Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendants’ Motion to Strike the Amended Complaint, Nov. 18, 2009 (PDF) Earlier posts Watchdog Sues Tribune: accuses Courant…